Security & Privacy


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Ransomware Attacks Move Beyond Enterprise Systems to Theaten Employees' Families

Attackers are exploiting enterprises' own artificial intelligence systems and extending pressure beyond internal networks to employees and their families, according to a new Semperis survey of organizations that suffered disruptive ransomware attacks.

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Researchers Find AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery

AI-powered vulnerability research is contributing to a major increase in security updates, raising concerns that IT teams could fall behind as patching demands grow, according to cybersecurity company ThreatDown.

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Microsoft Expands AI Security Platform to Address Agentic AI Security Risks

Microsoft is expanding the scope of its AI-powered Project Perception security platform to address the growing concern that AI agents may have access to sensitive information and systems, yet don't always behave as expected.

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Report: Cyber Attacks Increasingly Exploit Trusted Workplace Tools

In its latest threat intelligence report, Ontinue found that attackers are increasingly using trusted workplace tools to trick users into giving them access to enterprise networks.

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SailPoint Intros New Capabilities to Address Agentic AI Identity Security Challenge

AI agents are moving from experiments into everyday enterprise environments, but the security controls around them are not keeping pace, according to enterprise identity security company SailPoint.

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Flashpoint Receives Patent for Ransomware Risk Model, Tying Vulnerabilites to Likelihood of Attack

Cybersecurity company Flashpoint announced it has received U.S. Patent No. 12,705,360 for its Ransomware Risk model, a methodology designed to help security teams determine which newly disclosed vulnerabilities more closely resemble those historically used in ransomware attacks.

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Convergence of AI, Quantum Risks Is Impacting Cybersecurity

Recent research from Thales highlights how AI adoption and emerging quantum computing threats are putting pressure on existing security measures.

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AI Leaders Warn of Risks at United Nations Security Council Briefing

The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face recently joined AI researcher Yoshua Bengio at the United Nations headquarters in New York to warn the UN Security Council about the security risks of increasingly capable AI.

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When Cyber Attacks Disrupt Learning, Recovery Matters More than Ever

As schools become more dependent on digital platforms for instruction, grading, student services, and family communication, resilience depends not only on preventing attacks, but on how quickly leaders can restore trusted data, recover essential services, and keep disruptions from cascading across the school community.

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AI Platform Behind 12,000 E-mail Breaches Dismantled

Microsoft has shut down EvilTokens, a cybercrime service that used AI to help attackers break into e-mail accounts, study their victims, and build convincing financial scams.